Bonnie Hedden Hurst
Artist, mom, sometimes writer exploring creativity and the power of vulnerability
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New Works: Store Up, Insight, Morning Light
Posted on April 8, 2022 Leave a Comment
New Abstract Artwork: I love the vertical look of these – like water gently flowing. These have resin over the blue – stunning in person. You can find this piece at the Four Seasons Gallery in Homewood
New Work: Isn’t it funny?
Posted on April 7, 2022 Leave a Comment
This piece is one of the few that I have done without resin – it is just dreamy! You can find this piece at the Four Seasons Gallery in Homewood Find Four Seasons on Instagram and Facebook @Four_Seasons_Gallery
New Work: Expectations
Posted on April 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
This is my first piece using green instead of blue – it has a more earthy feel and I love it! The resin is poured on top of the color, making a beautiful shine in contrast with the matte finish of the texture. Makes you just want to reach out and touch it! You can […]
One of a Kind
Posted on March 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
10×20 Heavily textured base with resin & pieces of The Great Gatsby
New small pieces
Posted on February 28, 2022 Leave a Comment
Completed a few 5×5 and 6×6 this weekend. These are so much fun! And they look really cool arranged in a collage.
Trimalchio
Posted on February 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire – I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Words Bridge
Posted on February 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
12×12 Heavily textured base, acrylic paint, resin, pieces of The Great Gatsby
Stacked pieces
Posted on February 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
I love these 3 pieces stacked to make a new work. They are all available at Kathleen’s in Decatur! Each measures 12×36.
Words
Posted on January 30, 2022 1 Comment
Words “All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” – Ernest Hemingway
the Journey
Posted on January 28, 2022 Leave a Comment
the Journey “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but its the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway
New Work: Moonlight #2
Posted on January 27, 2022 Leave a Comment
Moonlight #2 20×20 Modeling medium, acrylic paint, resin
Pablo Picasso
Posted on January 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston had both a Pablo Picasso exhibit and an impressionist exhibit. Both were wonderful and inspiring. Picasso always fascinates me. I would love to go back in time and crawl inside his mind to see how he sees the world. He pulls things apart and rearranges them on canvas […]
New Work: We have such fun
Posted on January 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Oh, let’s have fun.” she begged him. “It’s too hot to fuss.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Heavily textured base, acrylic, resin, coffee dyed pieces of book pages
New Work: Converge
Posted on January 4, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.” -Norman Maclean Heavily textured, acrylic, pen and ink, resin
New Work: Searching Still
Posted on December 31, 2021 Leave a Comment
“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Texture, resin, coffee dyed pieces of The Great Gatsby, acrylic, pen and ink I have two more I’m working on that will look lovely stacked with this one.
New work: Tornado of Thought Forming
Posted on December 27, 2021 Leave a Comment
Tornado of Thought Forming 12×12 Mixed Media “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald I overthink. A lot. Ha. I suppose I am of a first-rare intelligence. Heavily textured, resin, pieces […]
From the studio . . .
Posted on December 24, 2021 1 Comment
I am working on building my collection of abstracts and painting with a friend is always fun. I’m so thankful my career allows me the time to do this over Christmas break. Interested in one of my abstracts? Now is the time to talk to me about it!
From the studio
Posted on December 12, 2021 Leave a Comment
Lovely bit of moonlight developing in this one. Now for some torn pieces of The Great Gatsby, some resin, and a tiny bit of pen and ink to finish it off. Off to a beautiful start!
Updates from the Studio
Posted on November 30, 2021 Leave a Comment
I had a little bit of time to spend in the studio over Thanksgiving break and I was able to lay the foundations for a couple of new paintings. The circle has so many symbolic meanings and I am a bit crushing on all of them right now so look for a few circles to dominate my abstracts over the holidays!
Abstract: Cracked Messages
Posted on October 13, 2021 Leave a Comment
Acrylic on heavily textured background, resin, torn book pages, egg shells; 12×24 “You were my favorite word until the day I forgot how to spell you.” – Michele G Stratford I am exploring more natural texture to add to my pieces. Egg shells were a cracking good time to work with.
Abstract: Calm In the Storm
Posted on October 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
This was my very first abstract. The idea came to me when I was prepping a background for another painting. I have always textured the backgrounds with modeling medium in circular shape. My daughter was playing around with resin on some of her paintings and I thought it might be cool to add some small […]
Abstract: Crossroads
Posted on October 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
The blue in this one made this painting pop for me. “We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.” -Ernest Hemingway The Hemingway quote is true for my life – I have encountered many a decision that I was suddenly faced with […]
Abstract: Whirlpool
Posted on October 6, 2021 Leave a Comment
Some paintings declare they are finished before I had actually planned for them to be finished. This is one of those. I fell in love with it at this stage in the process.
Abstract: Strong Foundation
Posted on October 5, 2021 Leave a Comment
The coffee dyed book pages turned out really cool. They are spotted and have a very pretty range of coffee colored hues. I believe a strong foundation in vocabulary gives us the power to communicate as well as understand most effectively. Lack of communication is the root of misunderstandings and conflicts.
Abstract: Tidepool
Posted on October 4, 2021 Leave a Comment
The Steinbeck quote is pulled from a passage describing the wonder of the world and the connection we sometimes feel as humans to all of it – the wonder of being a part of the whole of life. It is a very existential and Thoreau type view of the world. I, personally, think this pull […]
Abstract: It’s Complicated
Posted on October 3, 2021 Leave a Comment
I love how this turned out! The texture is so much fun. I delight in finding ways to make texture the focus of a piece and this painting kept me mesmerized. You cannot see in a photo the juxtaposition of matte paint against the shiny resin in the stream – but it is beautiful.